While I was evaluating Gerrit 2.6 I ended up installing the building the latest snapshot version (2.7RC) myself. All was fine until I was about to setup Jenkins to verify my commits. I was surprised to find the label "Verified" missing from the reviews. After some googling I found that in version 2.7 this has been removed and needed to be added manually in the project.config. After searching my drives I could not find this project.config only to realize that this is a file in the meta config. And this below is how you edit it:
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
git init
git remote add origin ssh://admin@remote.site.com:29418/All-Projects
git fetch origin refs/meta/config:refs/remotes/origin/meta/config
git checkout meta/config
Now you should have the project.config in you temp folder. Add the label as below:
[label "Verified"]
function = MaxWithBlock
value = -1 Fails
value = 0 No score
value = +1 Verified
Next you need to commit and push back to Gerrit. Ofcourse make sure you have the appropriate rights.
git commit -a
git push origin meta/config:meta/config
This problem really confused me for quite some time, until find this post.
Thanks for your detailed step by step guide on how to change project.config setting for Gerrit, which I think should be in official Gerrit document, but missing instead.
Thank you very much for the help.
Thanks for this post. I find it rather peculiar this is not mentioned in the documentation. You can figure this out, sure, but that’s what the doc is for, to describe mechanisms like these. Is this the “proper gerrit” way of editing project.config?
Sometimes I have the impression either the configuration of gerrit is not yet mature or it is me since I do not grasp 100% the concept of gerrit administration
Yeah I have also found this about the project.config file.
All the documentation just says edit this file and add these entries.
rather confusing…..
Thank you — you just saved me much aggravation, to put it mildly.
Thank you, I was also quite puzzled.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Saves me couple hours (or even days) investigation. Thank you!
10x a lot 😉
Thank you very much. This was great help
Thanks a bunch for this !
Hi Peter,
Thanks for this. It really helped. We followed the steps mentioned in this document. However,in the Access control list inside the All Projects, we are unable to see the Label: Verify in the ref/heads/* .
We are very new to Gerrit. Any help on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Arun Srinivasan
Hi Arun,
You will need to add the permission to the refs/heads/* by editting the All-Projects access and adding the permission “Label Verified”
Thanks ..
Hi,
I need to specify a certain branch in the label section in order to block submitting commits regarding the specific branch. Am I right with the following config:
[label “TestLabel”]
branch = refs/heads/
function = MaxWithBlock
value = -1 Fails
value = 0 No score
value = +1 Verified
in 2021 & gerrit 3.4.1, there is a new way to modify project.config:
BROWSE-Repositories-“All-Projects”-Commands-EDIT_REPO_CONFIG